Organized workers replaced petition delegations with autonomous demonstrations.
Evidence
Working-class organizations mounted far more than strikes. They lay behind a great many of the meetings, demonstrations, and petitions. Petition delegations soon disappeared as ways of making public claims, in favor of autonomously organized meetings and, especially, demonstrations. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1209
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1209
- XREF: connects to: Demonstrations and national general strikes replaced turnouts in Belgian contention. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1206; Changes in demonstration form reflect deeper shifts in social movement politics — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1231; Worker-selected factory commissars replaced union-picked appointees in Turin’s councils — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 1675 (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Worker-selected factory commissars replaced union-picked appointees in Turin’s councils
#exemplifies(0.85) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 1675 - Street protest evacuates rather than supplants the organized workplace struggle the left once waged
#qualifies(0.84) — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 156 - Modern protest movements are transient swarms held together by stimuli, not durable organizations
#complicates(0.83) — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 229 - Changes in demonstration form reflect deeper shifts in social movement politics
#expands(0.82) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1231 - Demonstrations evolved into highly flexible claim-making by massing supporters at power sites
#expands(0.80) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1190 - Horizontal protest movements that refuse representation get co-opted or crushed by existing powers
#complicates(0.76) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 444